[Tublecane]

“He views our rights as ‘negative rights’ which tells the government precisely what it cannot do.

He wants a set of ‘positive rights’ declared which would tell us all the neat things the Federal government can and should od for the rest of us ‘masses.’”

I don’t know why the quotation marks. That is proper terminology. A little scientistic, but it’s the right idea. I, for one, view negative rights positively but still call them “negative,” because they are.

[Jeff Head]

The idea is that most people have never heard them referred to in such a fashion...and his preference for "positive rights," meaning for the government to have a list of all sorts of things that the govewrnmmnt "by right" must do for us, makes clear what his leanings are.

In fact, he craves a command economy and his ideology is much more consistant with Mrxism than it is with Constitutional Republicanism.

Those ideals represent the anti-thesis of what this nation was founded upon and was supposed to be about...individual liberty, based on fundamental moral principle, with unalienable rights that are not subject to the whim of a ruler.

Obama wants very badly to shift from governance to rule.